KANT (Immanuel).
Critik der practischen Vernunft.
CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON
A sammelband containing the first edition of the Critique of Practical Reason, the second of Kant’s three main critical works in which he developed the concept of categorical imperative.
The Second Critique is bound with a first edition of Kant’s answer to the attacks of J.A. Eberhard, who had maintained that whatever was contained in Kant’s critical philosophy had already been better expressed by Leibniz and Wolff, and a third edition of Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (first published in 1785), his masterpiece of moral philosophy.
“The influence of Kant is paramount in the critical method of modern philosophy. No other thinker has been able to hold with such firmness the balance between speculative and empirical ideas. His penetrating analysis of the elements involved in synthesis, and the subjective process by which these elements are realised in the individual consciousness, demonstrated the operation of ‘pure reason’; and the simplicity and cogency of his arguments achieved immediate fame” (PMM).
Adickes 67, 70, & 58; Warda 112, 132 & 93.
